Post, retrieve and engage with Tweets

GET statuses/show/:id

Returns a single Tweet, specified by the id parameter. The Tweet’s author will also be embedded within the Tweet.

See GET statuses / lookup for getting Tweets in bulk (up to 100 per call). See also Embedded Timelines, Embedded Tweets, and GET statuses/oembed for tools to render Tweets according to Display Requirements.

About Geo

If there is no geotag for a status, then there will be an empty <geo/> or "geo" : {}. This can only be populated if the user has used the Geotagging API to send a statuses/update.

The JSON response mostly uses conventions laid out in GeoJSON. The coordinates that Twitter renders are reversed from the GeoJSON specification (GeoJSON specifies a longitude then a latitude, whereas Twitter represents it as a latitude then a longitude), eg: "geo": { "type":"Point", "coordinates":[37.78029, -122.39697] }

Resource URL

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/show.json

Resource Information

Response formats JSON
Requires authentication? Yes
Rate limited? Yes
Requests / 15-min window (user auth) 900
Requests / 15-min window (app auth) 900

Parameters

Name Required Description Default Value Example
id required The numerical ID of the desired Tweet.   123
trim_user optional When set to either true , t or 1 , each Tweet returned in a timeline will include a user object including only the status authors numerical ID. Omit this parameter to receive the complete user object.   true
include_my_retweet optional When set to either true , t or 1 , any Tweets returned that have been retweeted by the authenticating user will include an additional current_user_retweet node, containing the ID of the source status for the retweet.   true
include_entities optional The entities node will not be included when set to false.   false
include_ext_alt_text optional If alt text has been added to any attached media entities, this parameter will return an ext_alt_text value in the top-level key for the media entity. If no value has been set, this will be returned as null   true
include_card_uri optional When set to either true , t or 1 , the retrieved Tweet will include a card_uri attribute when there is an ads card attached to the Tweet and when that card was attached using the card_uri value.   true

Example Request

GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/show.json?id=210462857140252672

Example Response

{
  "coordinates": null,
  "favorited": false,
  "truncated": false,
  "created_at": "Wed Jun 06 20:07:10 +0000 2012",
  "id_str": "210462857140252672",
  "entities": {
    "urls": [
      {
        "expanded_url": "/terms/display-guidelines",
        "url": "https://t.co/Ed4omjYs",
        "indices": [
          76,
          97
        ],
        "display_url": "dev.twitter.com/terms/display-…"
      }
    ],
    "hashtags": [
      {
        "text": "Twitterbird",
        "indices": [
          19,
          31
        ]
      }
    ],
    "user_mentions": [

    ]
  },
  "in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
  "contributors": [
    14927800
  ],
  "text": "Along with our new #Twitterbird, we've also updated our Display Guidelines: https://t.co/Ed4omjYs  ^JC",
  "retweet_count": 66,
  "in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
  "id": 210462857140252672,
  "geo": null,
  "retweeted": true,
  "possibly_sensitive": false,
  "in_reply_to_user_id": null,
  "place": null,
  "user": {
    "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DDEEF6",
    "profile_sidebar_border_color": "C0DEED",
    "profile_background_tile": false,
    "name": "Twitter API",
    "profile_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/2284174872/7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3_normal.png",
    "created_at": "Wed May 23 06:01:13 +0000 2007",
    "location": "San Francisco, CA",
    "follow_request_sent": false,
    "profile_link_color": "0084B4",
    "is_translator": false,
    "id_str": "6253282",
    "entities": {
      "url": {
        "urls": [
          {
            "expanded_url": null,
            "url": "",
            "indices": [
              0,
              22
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      "description": {
        "urls": [

        ]
      }
    },
    "default_profile": true,
    "contributors_enabled": true,
    "favourites_count": 24,
    "url": "",
    "profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/2284174872/7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3_normal.png",
    "utc_offset": -28800,
    "id": 6253282,
    "profile_use_background_image": true,
    "listed_count": 10774,
    "profile_text_color": "333333",
    "lang": "en",
    "followers_count": 1212963,
    "protected": false,
    "notifications": null,
    "profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
    "profile_background_color": "C0DEED",
    "verified": true,
    "geo_enabled": true,
    "time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
    "description": "The Real Twitter API. I tweet about API changes, service issues and happily answer questions about Twitter and our API. Don't get an answer? It's on my website.",
    "default_profile_image": false,
    "profile_background_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
    "statuses_count": 3333,
    "friends_count": 31,
    "following": true,
    "show_all_inline_media": false,
    "screen_name": "twitterapi"
  },
  "in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
  "source": "web",
  "in_reply_to_status_id": null
}

This request could also be obtained with: GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/show/210462857140252672.json